On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 11:40:35AM +0100, Stefan Sperling wrote: > On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 11:37:17AM +0100, Branko Čibej wrote: > > Our .tar.bz2 and .tar.gz packages contain source files generated by > > Swig. A packager /can/ decide to regenerate them; I don't know why they > > would want to, but they can. > > I had to do just that for quite some time in the OpenBSD package because > swig versions were out of sync with those used by Subversion's release > manager at the time, which led to problems during the build. > I don't remember the details but regenerating those files with the > installed version of swig fixed things.
We also do that in Debian, but it's more to ensure that we _can_ regenerate them if needed. If we have to patch something in the swig files, we want to know that we'll be able to successfully rebuild the resulting output. Cheers, -- James GPG Key: 4096R/91BF BF4D 6956 BD5D F7B7 2D23 DFE6 91AE 331B A3DB
